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February 18, 2011

Not fade away.

We released balloons at the grave site today. It was the first time I'd seen them present the flag- he served in the Army- and as they played Taps I could hear Poppal humming it like he would do.

So thankful for these photos, I took last fall.

Noah turned ten this week, and we got him a cell phone.

!!!

(He can only text and call family.) But it's been awesome, like, more than I thought. He watched his brothers and sister in the nursery at the church for us yesterday and today and would text Daddy if he needed anything. It was such a relief.

Tonight in the car on the way home he texted me, "Mommy can you see the fool moon?"

charlie and jamie each have old ipod touches/old iphone for games and stuff, and we let them get a free text app and when they have wifi (basically at home or at whole foods) they can text us. it's been SO BEAUTIFUL getting messages while out on a date night like "love you hope you are having fun" and goodnights while i was at blissdom. sometimes they even text me in the same room to say sweet things. absolutely love it. and the misspells are the BEST. <3

we released balloons after my grandma passed in december, it was the most peaceful thing watching them float into the sky. they seemed to form a big "m" in the sky for her children who were watching from the ground, it was beautiful. I'm sorry to hear about your grandpa, those are great pictures. I'm so glad you're finding peace. Sending you hugs.

But please please in the future don't release balloons. There are so many ways we can honor our loved ones without releasing cheap bits of rubber that eventually deflate over the sea and kill dolphins (who mistake them for jelly fish).